[R] Sweave, R and complex latex projects

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 16 October 2006 at 11:28, Friedrich Leisch wrote:
| >>>>> On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 16:04:50 -0700,
| >>>>> Deepayan Sarkar (DS) wrote:
| 
| 
| 
|   > %.tex: %.Rnw
|   >         echo "library(tools); Sweave('$<')" | ${R_PROG} --vanilla --silent
| 
| Note that we now have R CMD Sweave (new in R 2.4.0) for this purpose.

It would have been nice if that followed convention and responded to --help
as suggested by 'R --help':


edd at basebud:~$ R --help | tail -5

Please use 'R CMD command --help' to obtain further information about
the usage of 'command'.

Report bugs to <r-bugs at r-project.org>.
edd at basebud:~$ 

yet what we get is an error:

edd at basebud:~$ R CMD Sweave --help
> library("utils"); Sweave("--help")
Writing to file --help.tex
Processing code chunks ...
Error in SweaveReadFile(file, syntax) : no Sweave file with name '--help' found
Execution halted
edd at basebud:~$ 


On the other hand:

edd at basebud:~$ R CMD INSTALL --help | head -2
Usage: R CMD INSTALL [options] pkgs

edd at basebud:~$ R --version
R version 2.4.0 (2006-10-03)
Copyright (C) 2006 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the
GNU General Public License.  For more information about
these matters, see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.

edd at basebud:~$ 



Dirk

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